April 13

The trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.—JAMES i, 3, 4.

Faith's meanest deed more favor bears

Where hearts and wills are weighed,

Than brightest transports, choicest prayers,

Which bloom their hour and fade.

J. H. NEWMAN.

Nothing that is excellent can be wrought suddenly.

TAYLOR.

Without faith a man's future is dark and gloomy. The man of true faith never despairs. Faith is, as it were, the eye through which he sees the all-merciful Providence taking care of the least and the most insignificant of His creatures. And hence, in the midst of the severest trials, the believer in God does not lose his heart.

The Bidbanbadi.